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<blockquote data-quote="Buddro" data-source="post: 1883279" data-attributes="member: 108148"><p>Since you have time do some shooting and try a few different bullets, see what your gun likes. .243 may be a bit of a small cartridge by today's standards but its plenty for antelope you shouldnt have to worry much about bullet selection. Keep in mind most monolithic designs like the barnes Ttsx realistically must be driven through lungs/heart to ensure quick clean kills leaving less margin of error. They also need a little more speed to help them open up to create a nice big permanent wound channel. They are ideal for helping a small cartridge bring a big animal down, but maybe not so much for a medium gun on a medium animal. Fragmenting designs like berger vlds send chunks of bullet in lines tangential to the path of the bullet increasing your chances of finding "cardio pulmonary tissue" should you misplace your shot. I personally feel they are a great way to hedge your bets. I didnt see any posts from hammer fans (I probably just missed them they are plentiful here), they make monolithic non toxic bullets designed to fragment as well.</p><p></p><p>A few more considerations you may want to make in your research. I dont know about your model seven predator but a lot of sevens come with very short barrels. Theres nothing wrong with that but you wont be developing as much speed with them. Try to shoot it over a chrony and take real world speed into consideration when you decide how far you are willing to shoot it will affect your bullets performance. Also some people find flat base bullets will generate a little extra speed in short barrels. They tend also to have greater accuracy out to ranges of 300ish yards than their boat tail counter parts provided your gun shoots them well.</p><p></p><p>At the end of the day practice and pick your shot, you cant go wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buddro, post: 1883279, member: 108148"] Since you have time do some shooting and try a few different bullets, see what your gun likes. .243 may be a bit of a small cartridge by today's standards but its plenty for antelope you shouldnt have to worry much about bullet selection. Keep in mind most monolithic designs like the barnes Ttsx realistically must be driven through lungs/heart to ensure quick clean kills leaving less margin of error. They also need a little more speed to help them open up to create a nice big permanent wound channel. They are ideal for helping a small cartridge bring a big animal down, but maybe not so much for a medium gun on a medium animal. Fragmenting designs like berger vlds send chunks of bullet in lines tangential to the path of the bullet increasing your chances of finding "cardio pulmonary tissue" should you misplace your shot. I personally feel they are a great way to hedge your bets. I didnt see any posts from hammer fans (I probably just missed them they are plentiful here), they make monolithic non toxic bullets designed to fragment as well. A few more considerations you may want to make in your research. I dont know about your model seven predator but a lot of sevens come with very short barrels. Theres nothing wrong with that but you wont be developing as much speed with them. Try to shoot it over a chrony and take real world speed into consideration when you decide how far you are willing to shoot it will affect your bullets performance. Also some people find flat base bullets will generate a little extra speed in short barrels. They tend also to have greater accuracy out to ranges of 300ish yards than their boat tail counter parts provided your gun shoots them well. At the end of the day practice and pick your shot, you cant go wrong. [/QUOTE]
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